Shortly before his 44th birthday, the late John Diamond received the news that a lump he'd been assured was a benign cyst was, in fact, cancerous. This is a witty but compelling... more
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Now, being truly unwell is no excuse for not filing your copy, and the resulting column is in danger of becoming something of a genre. If so, then here is its be...
of what cancer is, what it does, how it kills, how it can be cured. It is the book Diamond needed the night he was phoned up and told, 'Look, it's bad news.' "Fr...
of what cancer is, what it does, how it kills, how it can be cured. It is the book Diamond needed the night he was phoned up and told, 'Look, it's bad news.' "From its marvellous opening sentence to the sad, wry, shrewd and moving coda of resignation tinged with hope on its final page, this book is a wonder.It is obligatory reading because it is bereft of blather and jargon, it is devoid of the ghastly language of pseudo-caring that blights so many personal accounts of illness.it is written with a panache, a humour, a wisdom and a passion that together make it one of the wittiest, most readable and sanest contributions to the growing and invaluable literature on diseases written by those w
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Advantages: Honest, brave, funny. Disadvantages: The endings too sad to contemplate.
...honesty that shines through. He often describes himself as a hack, but he's not. For anyone with such dreadfull illness in their family C is a must. In it John Diamond tells the story of his cancer from the beginning, although, sadly, he cannot reach its end. Read this book! ...
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C (Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...) - John Diamond
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Author: John Diamond
Title: C (Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...)
Genre: Biography
Type: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 0091816645; 0091816653
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Shortly before his 44th birthday, the late John Diamond received the news that a lump he'd been assured was a benign cyst was, in fact, cancerous. This is a witty but compelling story of one man's view of his cancer and its treatment.
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